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Nadine Dorries : The Gift That Keeps On Giving
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How bad are things in the Tory party that this woman is deemed competent enough to be a government minister ? ?
I look forward to but also cringe at the thought of every time she is lined up to be on television
Yet infinitely more competent politicians lose their jobs ?
Unbelievable
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You get a sense of her calibre here
Quite the potty mouth for a minister !
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Quite the potty mouth for a minister !
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Now my dears
I have to apologise to Naomi for my various faults.
The starmer gibe - that he was responsible for all and sundry was APPARENTLY because Boris feels aggrieved at being made to take responsibility for the no 10 parties he attended
and decided to give Starmer a bit of the same medicine
so it is true ( what Naomi said: Boris takes responsibility) wow who would have believed it ? ( considering good old Boris twists and squirms and equivocates ( yes ! equivocates) like a good 'un
sozza nozza
if any of this post reads cack-handed or irrational rubbish - then dont worry - this is normal for AB !
I have to apologise to Naomi for my various faults.
The starmer gibe - that he was responsible for all and sundry was APPARENTLY because Boris feels aggrieved at being made to take responsibility for the no 10 parties he attended
and decided to give Starmer a bit of the same medicine
so it is true ( what Naomi said: Boris takes responsibility) wow who would have believed it ? ( considering good old Boris twists and squirms and equivocates ( yes ! equivocates) like a good 'un
sozza nozza
if any of this post reads cack-handed or irrational rubbish - then dont worry - this is normal for AB !
Khandro, I don't see it at all. They are being reported as news and of course are being asked questions whose answers they believe the public have a right to hear. People have a tendency to believe and perceive what they want to; that's why there is much scorn for the mainstream media, which on the whole reports fairly fairly and fully fully, but does not pander to prejudices.
Khandro
Nadine Dorries as well as Boris Johnson, along with any other MP who have spoken in favour of removing, or even reviewing, the BBC licence fee are getting denigrated by them at every possible opportunity.
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Have you actually watched any of her interviews ?
You believe her sane
balanced and engaging ?
She is utterly dreadful and akin to a petulant schoolchild
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That is the behaviour of a government minister
Even the Tory fanboys cringe at her !
Nadine Dorries as well as Boris Johnson, along with any other MP who have spoken in favour of removing, or even reviewing, the BBC licence fee are getting denigrated by them at every possible opportunity.
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Have you actually watched any of her interviews ?
You believe her sane
balanced and engaging ?
She is utterly dreadful and akin to a petulant schoolchild
https:/
That is the behaviour of a government minister
Even the Tory fanboys cringe at her !
sticky, I'm not interested if MPs 'interview well' on TV programmes, I'm more interested in MPs getting things done.
The core of the BBC's vendetta is here, & why they will do anything to try to oust these two:
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The core of the BBC's vendetta is here, & why they will do anything to try to oust these two:
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Sticky; //So what has been the sum total of tasks completed on her remit so far//
She has only been in the post for 3 months which have been turbulent for everyone, but, she has been an MP for 15 years before her first government role in 2020, as a junior health minister, Dorries was known for her robust views on other areas including abortion, and on equal marriage, which she opposed, saying it had lost the Conservatives millions of votes.
A longstanding supporter of Boris Johnson, she was less forgiving of the former leader David Cameron and chancellor George Osborne, once describing them as “arrogant posh boys who don’t know the price of milk”.
However, some officials who worked with her at the health department said that while they had misgivings when she was given the job, Dorries had proven diligent and easy to work with.
Dorries has made no secret of her views on some issues that will now come under her brief.
In a tweet which was widely recirculated after her new job was announced, Dorries said: “Leftwing snowflakes are killing comedy, tearing down historic statues, removing books from universities, dumbing down panto, removing Christ from Christmas and suppressing free speech. Sadly, it must be true, history does repeat itself. It will be music next.”
Do you disagree?
Half-wits may be prepared to dismiss her on the basis of a doctored BBC interview, but I won't.
She has only been in the post for 3 months which have been turbulent for everyone, but, she has been an MP for 15 years before her first government role in 2020, as a junior health minister, Dorries was known for her robust views on other areas including abortion, and on equal marriage, which she opposed, saying it had lost the Conservatives millions of votes.
A longstanding supporter of Boris Johnson, she was less forgiving of the former leader David Cameron and chancellor George Osborne, once describing them as “arrogant posh boys who don’t know the price of milk”.
However, some officials who worked with her at the health department said that while they had misgivings when she was given the job, Dorries had proven diligent and easy to work with.
Dorries has made no secret of her views on some issues that will now come under her brief.
In a tweet which was widely recirculated after her new job was announced, Dorries said: “Leftwing snowflakes are killing comedy, tearing down historic statues, removing books from universities, dumbing down panto, removing Christ from Christmas and suppressing free speech. Sadly, it must be true, history does repeat itself. It will be music next.”
Do you disagree?
Half-wits may be prepared to dismiss her on the basis of a doctored BBC interview, but I won't.
From The New Statesman :
She became best-known in the coalition years for calling David Cameron and George Osborne “two arrogant posh boys who don’t know the price of milk”.
A social conservative with Catholic heritage who tried to introduce stricter time limits on abortion, she didn’t quash rumours that she would defect to Ukip at that time. In 2013 she told me that the Tories should run joint candidacies with Ukip in the 2015 general election (“I’d have exactly the same values as the Ukip candidates standing against me.”)
The Cameroon elite insist they were not rattled by her pot-shots; they didn’t take her seriously then and don’t now, according to insiders who were present at the time. They did note, however, the irony of her support for the Old Etonian Johnson, who not only said in 2013 that he didn’t know the price of a pint of milk but boasted: “I can tell you the price of a bottle of champagne.”
Like her leader, she provokes outrage.
In 2013, she threatened to nail the Sunday Mirror reporter Ben Glaze’s “balls to the floor”, accused the paper’s journalists of being “bottom-feeding scum” and in 2017 she called the LBC presenter James O’Brien a “public school posh boy f*** wit” (two of her daughters attended the same school as him). She also retweeted (but later deleted) a tweet calling O’Brien a “UK hater & an apologist for Islamist atrocities”.
Last year she riled the BBC by deriding one of its political editor Laura Kuenssberg’s sources as “ridiculous”. This month she also risked angering the new generation of Tory MPs by decrying Anthony Mangnall, of the 2019 intake, as an “ego” and “selfish” for writing a letter of no confidence in Johnson.
“I’d never heard of Nadine Dorries before she got this [Culture Sectetary] gig because I don’t watch the jungle and I didn’t know about the kangaroo testicles,” says John Nicolson MP, the SNP’s culture spokesman, who recently grilled Dorries over her tweets at the culture select committee.
“I did a bit of due diligence and my team and I discovered this catalogue of appalling tweets. This seemed deeply ironic to me because she is responsible for online disinformation, and legislation which outlines a duty to behave properly online,” he tells me.
Coupled with policy gaffes, such as erroneously claiming Channel 4 was publicly funded, this wildcard approach makes many in Westminster question whether she is a helpful defender of the Prime Minister. “She is not known as ‘Mad Nad’ among colleagues for nothing,” says one veteran Tory MP, who has worked closely with her in the past.
Only half-wits would deem her competent and able to act in the expected manner of a minister
She became best-known in the coalition years for calling David Cameron and George Osborne “two arrogant posh boys who don’t know the price of milk”.
A social conservative with Catholic heritage who tried to introduce stricter time limits on abortion, she didn’t quash rumours that she would defect to Ukip at that time. In 2013 she told me that the Tories should run joint candidacies with Ukip in the 2015 general election (“I’d have exactly the same values as the Ukip candidates standing against me.”)
The Cameroon elite insist they were not rattled by her pot-shots; they didn’t take her seriously then and don’t now, according to insiders who were present at the time. They did note, however, the irony of her support for the Old Etonian Johnson, who not only said in 2013 that he didn’t know the price of a pint of milk but boasted: “I can tell you the price of a bottle of champagne.”
Like her leader, she provokes outrage.
In 2013, she threatened to nail the Sunday Mirror reporter Ben Glaze’s “balls to the floor”, accused the paper’s journalists of being “bottom-feeding scum” and in 2017 she called the LBC presenter James O’Brien a “public school posh boy f*** wit” (two of her daughters attended the same school as him). She also retweeted (but later deleted) a tweet calling O’Brien a “UK hater & an apologist for Islamist atrocities”.
Last year she riled the BBC by deriding one of its political editor Laura Kuenssberg’s sources as “ridiculous”. This month she also risked angering the new generation of Tory MPs by decrying Anthony Mangnall, of the 2019 intake, as an “ego” and “selfish” for writing a letter of no confidence in Johnson.
“I’d never heard of Nadine Dorries before she got this [Culture Sectetary] gig because I don’t watch the jungle and I didn’t know about the kangaroo testicles,” says John Nicolson MP, the SNP’s culture spokesman, who recently grilled Dorries over her tweets at the culture select committee.
“I did a bit of due diligence and my team and I discovered this catalogue of appalling tweets. This seemed deeply ironic to me because she is responsible for online disinformation, and legislation which outlines a duty to behave properly online,” he tells me.
Coupled with policy gaffes, such as erroneously claiming Channel 4 was publicly funded, this wildcard approach makes many in Westminster question whether she is a helpful defender of the Prime Minister. “She is not known as ‘Mad Nad’ among colleagues for nothing,” says one veteran Tory MP, who has worked closely with her in the past.
Only half-wits would deem her competent and able to act in the expected manner of a minister
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